It´s welded with a MIG welding machine so it´s not as good looking as it would have been with a TIG. But I can ensure you that the weldings will hold! ( not the first time I weld) I don´t thing you will find any other better design than this which have less pipes. This is build after a rulebook of rollcages that we have to use in our driftning cars here in Finland. There are about 3 or 4 rollcages that are allowed and that one I use is one of them. But thanks for your opinion.
No, the manifold is made of 48.4 mm pipes, around 2.5mm thickness. So, no it isn´t a light manifold but I dont know any better pipes to build from. All the bends (don´t know if it´s the right word) is also in the same dimension. The weight of the car isn´t so important for me, I just compensates it with more power!!
HAHA!!! No, I´ve build the mainfold so I still can change sparkplugs when the manifold is on. It´s tight, but it works! I can also reach the engine from inside of the car, through a servicedoor from the top. More pictures will come on that later on.
I don't think the welds look that bad, for a MIG they actually look pretty good. I've seen a lot worse come out of big name UK tuning companies. This looks mental though, I love it. Nice work on the manifold. I can't want to see the finished product! What sort of power are you expecting from it?
Thanks! Yeah, the CG is so far from the engine so I have to build a strong brace so the manifold won´t bends when it´s get hot. Hope so!
Thanks! The car is in fact almost finished but i will show you people here at Driftworks the story about how my car go from being a car ready fro the junkyard to be a cool driftcar! Someone posted here a link to a thread I have on a swedish forum, but the swedish isn´t so easy to understand and the google translater is shit so I write it from the beginning here instead. (I have actually asked him to take the links away because I will update for you here in a short time the whole story!) I want to have so much power so I can spinn the wheels both in the 3rd and the 4th gear without any problem, but if you want a number so around 400hp i hope on!
Okay, now it´s time for an update! For season 2010 it will be necessary to have a reinforcing tubes / profile between the threshold and the tunnel. So lets make one! 38mm tubes welded in 120 cm2 plates. Then a picture of my modified wheels. 17 inch Brock B1 with ET 13 and with a new boltpattern to fit nissans 5x114.3. These wheels are going to be painted in white later.
The building of the intakemanifold. Bladerider: What about the weldings now? Welded them with the TIG on my job.
Okay, that was the intake. The caps for the fuelinjectors are going to be installed also, but more about that later!
Corrr bolt on parts jsut arnt enough hey ? Some amazing weld's their, you've really got ambitions Good luck mate
Okay, now is the car ready to get some paint on it! It´s going to be white on the inside and red, black and blue on the outside!
Time to build up the engine again. Drilled a hole for oil return from the turbo. A little paint on the engineblock. On with some Redline lubricate the falling branch. Crankshaft mounted. Pistons finding their place.... The oilreturn from turbo is ready. Started to grind in the valves. New gasket.
More and more parts begin to find their place ...... Gearbox got new Castrol SMX oil. The new clutchkit, Sachs 765 pressure plate and a 4 puck sinter ... should hold up to 800Nm! Fitted with new 10.9 bolts. Exhaust- and intake manifold back from flattering. Time to mount it in the car. Okay, that was that! Next is to start with the outside of the car!
Doing some molds of an Vertex bodykit, good to have if you go outside the track! Molds of the sideskirts are ready. Cutting up the rearfenders. A new set of glasfiber rearfenders under construction. These ones is for an silvia s14 so a little bit modifying is required. Quite good, I think! The hood and trunk is prepared for paint. But first some holes for the hot air to escape from the enginebay. The black paint was painted outside, quite good quality after all!
Simply awesome! good work, I like your attention to detail and how everything is done to a high standard. Can't wait to see it finished
